Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-17
REAL ESTATE.
COMBINATION
Land Company.
Special N o. 2.
REAL ESTATE.

A real estate agent came mp from the west
Came up from the west as the sun wen
down
And his best was as good as any in town.
For agents must work or sellers will weep,
| And commissions are low, and it costs Il
A real estate office running
| A real estate buyer, wary ana wise,
| Went with the agent to the seaside;
| He trusted no words, but trusted his eyes;
This buyer of land who was slow to decide
| For buyers must look and ponder and keel
| Their eyes wide open, though land be cheal
In this country of booms and booming.
He saw Lencadia in all its glory
| OF vineyards and orchards and sea-beacf
grand
Has been told concerning this fairy land
| And he bought block-bought it at once,
| For he said to buy not was the act OF Il Ounce
| When the land is so cheap and charming
South of the San Marcos river, or
the line of the California Southern
railroad, an hours ride from San Di
ego and less than four hours ride
from Los Angeles by the A. T. & S. L
line now building, LEUCADIA lies ir
the lap Of Paradise. She is the fair
est of all the fair daughters of the sea
She is the Venus Amphridite o
Southern California. The beach al
Leu cadia is as hard as asphalt and as
level as ballroom floor, and the SUR
is so light it would not upset baby
Generally seaside soil is not prolific
agriculturally speaking-but the LAND
at Leucadia is exceptionally fertile
and beautiful. From the edge of the
bluff overhanging the ocean it ascends
gently to the summit of the first
ridge, then it descends gently to a
valley, through which the railroad
runs, and then ascends to the summit
of the second ridge, where it descends
rapidly into ravine running into the
San Marcos river. There are no ar.
royos, no abrupt places, and no un.
even ground. Every part of the tract
is visible from every other part. l,
you wish to live directly upon the
ocean, the first terrace from the beach
affords lovely building sites. If you
wish ocean breeze and view, without
the sound OF the surf, the upper ter.
races will give you these. if you
wish a valley, sheltered from the
ocean breezes and yet within three OF
four hundred yards of the beach-al
this can be had at Leucadia. The sol
is simply wonderful. On the summit
or the second ridge is ten-acre grove
of Eucalyptus trees, two years old and
twenty feet high, grown without 8
drop of water. On the slopes of the
ridge, bordering on the ocean, are or
chards of Adriatic figs, and fields o.
corn twelve feet high, and in tue val
ley through which the railroad runs
there are vineyards of Muscat grapes,
three years old, in full bearing; apri
cot trees loaded with fruit, and young
orange trees, as lively and as lovely
and as self-reliant us if they were moi
growing within 800 yards OF the ocear
surf, within whose sound some agri
cultural liar has remarked that "or
anges will not grow" And all thii
without one drop of water excep
what has fallen from the clouds. The
worlSmen are now sinking the frs
well ever put down in Leucadia. with
the exception of a well which wa,
sunk in the valley, and which wai
| given up because the owner, at the
depth OF fifty feet, struck a vein O
mineral water. 1t is excellent fol
gout, rheumatism and kidney disease
and is mild cathartic, but the we'll
digger's garden did not have the gout
and his kidneys ranked Al, copper.
bottomed and copper-fastened, ant
his mules did not need cathartic, sc
he gave up the well-and thus there
has never been any irrigation to hell
the wonderful vegetation of Leucadia
eve shall clear out the mineral wei
by and by and put house over it anC
give the victims of dyspepsia show.
Well, this paradise is being made
ready for the market. We are some
thing more than commission agents il
the case Of Leucadia-we are owners
OF a large block of the stock of thu
Leucadia Company, and it is our hope
and our pride to help make Leucadi;
the banner seaside resort of the coast
Leucadia has been surveyed ant
mapped, the avenues, 260 feet apart
running parallel with the railroad ant
lO'tati bCetNliy anu CtlCCtS at Ileilb aU
giles 400 feet apart. The avenues are
named after Greek divinities and the
streets after ancient Greek personages
These Greeks are all thoroughly deac
and lot buyers will take no chances OF
being obligedto change the names O
the streets whereon they live on ac
count of subsequent misconduct OF the
people after whom the streets are
named. The streets have been Gu
out, and railroad station has beer
built, and road is now being graded
down to the beach and bath houses
being erected, and a siding and sta
ton is being constructed. And wher
we offer lots in Leucadia for sale, We
shall have something more to presen
to purchasers than "the substance O
things hoped for and the evidence O
things not seen."
The streets of Leucadia will be
planted with shade trees and waite
will be piped along its avenues, and
there will be "The Sappho," one O
the finest seaside hetels in California
to aid in the erection of which the
Leucadia Company will devote one
fifth OF the proceeds of sales of al
lots. Arrangements will also be mad,
looking to union church, and an op
era house, where the plays OF Sopho
cles will be rendered, and possibly al
ampitheater, where there will be clas
sical games, ending with a grand com
bat between coyotes and anti-seasid,
snarlers, with the betting in favor O
the cayotes. You who are looking 70
homes, you who are looking for in
vestments, you who are looking for ;
safe and profitable speculation, wait
few weeks for Leucadia.
About October 18th there will be al
auction upon the ground of two o.
three hundred lots to fix prices. Aftel
| that the eyen-numbered blocks will